Question Issues google after upgrade

[f.nori]

Hi, after updating to Plesk Ossidiana 18.0.65 sites are disappearing from Google search. Is there any correlation?

 

[Raul A.]

I don't see how that could be related.

Did you add your websites in Google Search Console ? It will provide useful information regarding indexing issues, if any.

 

[f.nori]

Hi, yes i have the websites in Google Search Console. From October 30th all the sites started to disappear. I attach image. Thank you.

 

[Raul A.]

Did you check the possible causes highlighted in this article Why did my site traffic drop? - Search Console Help ?

 

[f.nori]

Thanks for the support but the problem is not a drop in views but the fact that the sites have disappeared from the Google SERP.

 

[Raul A.]

Were the websites added with http:// and you moved to https://?

Do you need to reverify ownership of the domain names?

 

[f.nori]

Hi the websites were entered as https. The problem is that now this is also happening with old sites on Plesk that do not have any maps inserted in the search console. Can Plesk block indexing somehow?

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

As long as there are no rules in robots.txt/.htaccess, or disabled indexing, Plesk shouldn't be interfering in any way. This is just a guess, but it seems like the timestamp matches a status report published by Google that might be related to the issue you are experiencing.

 

[f.nori]

Thanks, in case I wanted to enable the directive for the whole site, could you tell me how to change it

<Location /shared/>
Options +Indexes
</Location>

to the Additional nginx directives field:

location /shared/ {
autoindex on;
}


Thanks so much for your help

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hey, @f.nori. I wouldn't jump into allowing directory indexing right away. Although, it should generally contribute to making your content easier for crawling, it has security risks and, frankly, I highly doubt this is the issue in your case as no changes on the policy were made during the previous release. I can see that there are previous threads on Google's end of users reporting similar issues. It might be better to first explore the topics:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/133537288/my-site-suddenly-disappeared-from-serp?hl=en

https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/238252435/longstanding-pages-completely-disappeared-from-serp?hl=en

 

[f.nori]

Thank you so much.